Month: December 2008

I’ve just about finished transferring must of the old Virtual server images to Hyper-V on some of them, the Network card was lost with the "Virtual machine Bus" not being updated in Device Manager. Effectively it had not somehow skipped HAL detection when Integration Services Installed. http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=604 1. run msconfig 2. go into Advanced Boot…

Dan Jones gives a sneak preview of the sexy new management features in "Kilimanjaro"due in 2010. This is very cool stuff for anyone who needs to manage and deploy enterprise application in a SQL "fabric". http://edge.technet.com/Media/PASS-Community-Summit-2008/

One of the biggest complaints about SSIS is the lack of performance when reading or writing to Oracle and Teradata. There isn’t much support for bulk methods that are really needed to load data quickly. The recently released SSIS connectors licensed from Attunity seem to pretty much help solve this problem. This is only available…

Just in case anyone isn’t aware – Kimberly Tripp is back to Dublin this Thursday – 4th December at the SQL Users Group. The session is on optimising and scaling stored procs – details are here http://www.sql.mtug.ie/Events/EventInfo.aspx?ID=166a7fcc-6003-4980-aaa0-efe7641875f3 if you are working on a project with stored procedures this is a must. Push the SQL developers…